La Perla Atelier Spring 2015 Couture reveal a tantalizing
glimpse of their breathtaking Inside-Out Spring/Summer 2015 collection
in the opulent and intimate salon setting of Paris's Hôtel Salomon de
Rothschild. Exploring the notion of ‘what we keep secret and what we
reveal’, it represented ‘the underpinnings of the external image’.

Sunday, 28 June 2015

MIU MIU releases 'SUBJECTIVE REALITY', the new Fall/Winter 2015/16 Ad-Campaign. Maybe it’s the season, or the constant change in fashion, but high
fashion seems to be taking their campaigns in another direction the
streets. First, there was Gucci,
and now Miu Miu. The Italian house shot their Fall 2015 campaign in New
York City, from the bus stop to the traffic lights to the sidewalk. Campaign shot by Steven Meisel, starring Maddison Brown, Hailey Gates, and repeat Miu Miu campaign stars
Mia Goth and Stacy Martin, the four models pose casually accompanied
with a backdrop of equally stylish passer-bys.

We love how the photos come with obvious captions such as “girls
approaching car” and “waiting at bus stop”, something in which Miu Miu
does not usually adhere to. If this means a fresh take for the
label from Miuccia Prada, we’re totally in.

Thursday, 25 June 2015

Anna Molinari,
who’s known as “The Queen of the Roses,” here in Milan a name given to
her by Franco Moschino when she first hit the scene with her floral
designs looked to another moniker for the collection’s additional muse ...

Discover amazing backstage moments and the making-of video at the end of this post!

Epic Hollywood films don’t have pilot episodes; TV series do. Designer Massimo Giorgetti admitted he’s a big fan of the latter, which explains why he called his first collection for Emilio Pucci“The Pilot Episode,” prefacing the transeasonal women’s and menswear
that he showed in the grounds of a Florentine art school last night with
a light touch of pop culture. “The mix between past, present, and
future is very important to me,” explained Giorgetti, holding court
beneath Massimiliano Locatelli’s fluorescent light display as models
trained listlessly to the strains of the Vitamin String Quartet.

Their
renditions of the Strokes songs expressed the clash of old and new that
reverberates throughout Giorgetti’s Pucci debut: a visual feast of
textures not-as-they-seem, a boisterous color mix, and ladylike
silhouettes twisted with a retro frisson. Tackling his own decade-spanning challenge, Giorgetti treated Mr.
Pucci’s iconic scarf prints to a twenty-first-century shakeup bold
painterly stripes fell off the shoulder on a twisted lambskin shift
dress or wrapped around a feather-belted silk slip in shades of black,
candy pink, violet, and sunny orange.

Elsewhere, the new Tourists in
Florence print came sketched across pajama silk shirts or picked out in
macramé (if you look closely, you’ll even see President Obama hiding
amongst the Duomo and Ponte Vecchio) in an incongruous moment of kitsch
that was not, ironically, dug out of any house archives. A little easier
on the eye, floral aquarelle prints were shredded and applied as a
fringe or cut as lopsided tunic tops worn with mannish trousers,
building moments of asymmetry and dynamic surface play that culminated
in a reverse fil coupé jacquard coat. Inside that coat, Giorgetti
revealed, was traced the filigree swirls of the fleur-de-lis or
Florentine lily, the same flower he has integrated into the new mirrored
P logo, an omnipresent symbol that came emblazoned across stacked heel
silver loafers and a thatched tote, or woven into a Lurex skirt.

“At the beginning of his career, Emilio Pucci was very free; he
didn’t conform,” said Giorgetti, reasoning with his own radical side
whilst fingering the laser-cut nylon of a deep blue duster coat. “Before
he was famous for print, he was celebrated for his daywear like ski
pants, leggings, technical fabrics, jersey, and nylon. I would like to
rebuild the same attitude not only in the clothes, but towards the
fashion system too.” And with Pucci CEO and heir Laudomia Pucci cheering
on from the sidelines, he just may have found the time, and the place,
to do it.